THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. — Where many people might just see a log — sometimes a very big log — Joe Wavra sees potential. And he’s perfected the art of bringing that potential to life, so to speak, with a ...

With precision and skill, Michael Watson carefully edges his chainsaw over the exposed, dried-out log in front of him until it resembles a face. He is carving the long beard of a wood spirit into a ...

Some might refer to Lakeport’s award-winning chain saw artist Mark Colp as “a chip off the old block” since his dad, Don, was a pioneer in the art of chain saw carving. Since graduating from Lower ...